Bergamo Arrives at the Mission

It was built as a house for a god, and one finally showed up

photo by author

There were huge towers out on the deserts and prairies, beaming a constant mix of comedy, music, news and opinion, on radio frequency. But nobody in Ash Fork had ever seen microchip technology. The racks of preamplifiers, filters, processors mixers and effects boxes were the possessions of someone richer than…